I'm race-race run-run this morning, and I'm knowing better, and I'm running my mind on the words I know so well: Slowing down is the most spiritual thing you will ever do.
Those are the words I heard some 45 years ago which, at the time, I thought were beyond stupid. I've come to find out that they are pure truth. The truth is in this fact: That which we're racing after has become the God of our understanding. The instant some anything becomes our blind focus, that thing takes God's place.
I'm having my carpet cleaned today...I know people who have prepared for serious surgery with a calmer mind. When I die, and it may even be at age 100, whoever cleans out my unit will be saying, "Why in the name of all the sainted popes did she store this here?" I am certain sure I'll never find anything ever again.
It's a humbling thought that a clean carpet has taken the place of the God of my understanding. Tomorrow I'll lecture on how not to do it this way.
And I just remembered something else I need to put away....
Thank you.
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